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Friday, October 28, 2011

The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | Indian Philanthropy Lags Behind Accumulation of Wealth: While many of us think that the U.S. is very nonprofit-rich, India has a staggering 3.3 million NGOs with 700 new ones opening each day. It has 450 million people who are living in poverty and also has 57 billionaires, according to Forbes, as well as a rapidly increasing group of millionaires. According to Bain and Company, India’s 20 wealthiest individuals have doubled their combined wealth, but this super rich class is only giving between 1.5% and 3% of their yearly income, paling in comparison to the 9 percent donated each year in the U.S. “

Bleak Short Term Outlook for Egyptian Philanthropic and NGO Sectors | Foreign Policy Blogs: Back in mid-February, amid the optimism of the immediate post-Mubarak era, I wrote a blog post exploring the future of philanthropy and the NGO sector in Egypt, noting that the field had been developing quite rapidly despite a restrictive operating environment. I speculated that if regulatory interference from the Ministry of Social Solidarity receded, the future was bright and we might witness major boom in nonprofits and civil society activity. That may still come to pass, but recent developments detailed by IRIN/Guardian Global Development paint a less hopeful picture in the near term:

Delaware's former U.S. senator appeared at the banquet at the Center on the Riverfront to award the foundation's first Delaware Family Philanthropy Award to the family of the late Samuel and Roxana Arsht.

Charity Navigator 2.0 in Context | Tactical Philanthropy: On September 20th of this year, Charity Navigator (CN) launched a significant change to our rating system (called CN 2.0). In follow-up, Sean has kindly offered me the opportunity to put this event in the context of CN’s present and future. In addition, it offers me the chance to address some criticisms from the “three C’s” (critics, competitors and charities with lower ratings).

massnonprofit.org ::: The finding, contained in a report titled Rhetoric Versus Reality: A Strategic Disconnect at Community Foundations, was based on in-depth interviews with CEOs of community foundations that were selected to represent the population of larger American community foundations.

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Trickle-Forward Economics: Scott Harrison's Water-Based Experiment In Viral Philanthropy | Fast Company: The same strategy has propelled a new experiment in micro-philanthropy with WaterForward, a pay-it-forward model of charitable giving where, for $10, a donor inscribes a friend of his or her choosing in a public book; each donor can only be in the book once, so any sense of reciprocation has to be directed to another friend, hopefully sparking a cascade of forward reciprocity. The ultimate goal is to bring clean water to a billion people who don't have it; 100% of public donations go to clean water projects. Physical volumes of the book will be printed every time an "edition" is one million people strong.

They will be trick or treating for items on the Ronald McDonald House Charities’ wish list, which includes laundry detergent, liquid hand soap and bathroom cleaners.

The sorority will accept items through Nov. 12. They can be dropped off at the Trojan House restaurant on Avalon Avenue in Muscle Shoals or at several places on UNA’s campus, philanthropy chairwoman Luisa Oswalt said.

Monday, October 24, 2011

Rubin Museum receives $25 million gift from Shelley and Donald Rubin: NEW YORK, N.Y.- Robert M. Baylis, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Rubin Museum announced that the Museum has received a $25 million gift from Shelley and Donald Rubin, the Museum’s founders. The gift will be dedicated to helping fund operations, exhibitions and programs over the next five years as the Rubin continues its initiatives to diversify its leadership and broaden its funding base. In support of these goals, Mr. Baylis concurrently announced that Patrick Sears has been named Deputy Director of the Museum and Cynthia Guyer has been appointed to the newly created position of Head of External Affairs.

Running a Successful Capital Campaign: When Heather Hurst started her new job as president and CEO of Humber River Regional Hospital Foundation, she had to hit the ground running, given her new employer was one year into the throes of a major capital campaign.

In the early stage of a $250 million fundraising effort to build the first new hospital in Toronto in 35 years, they’re hoping the first shovel will hit the ground this November.